It was just who he was. Bryce’s personality was the kind that liked to joke. He joked with a humor that slipped small denigrations with smiles, sold as humor for a laughs equally intended to cut whom they were spoken towards. It was just who he was, and so long as you understood, there […]
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FAIRYTALES
“Why do you write so much as happiness? Do you believe words are harmless, that they won’t have consequences? People will laugh at you in time.” “I believe words shape thoughts. I believe thoughts shape worlds. I am writing the world I want to see. Why would I want to write it ugly?” […]
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MAGIC MOMENT
“…no single day is the same as any other and…each morning brings its own special miracle, it’s magic moment in which ancient universes are destroyed and new stars are created.”—Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept Magic lived—the coalescing of force and destiny. Her eyes shone with specks of gold […]
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TWELVE-YEAR OLD SELF
I miss that, the innocence of attraction when you began to notice and be drawn, not with lust but to beauty in form and soul, and the romanticism of a youthful heart in growth. I miss that innocence. I miss that magic. I held onto that ideal and wonder for a long time, […]
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BEARING WITNESS
The sun fell into line of sight with their eyes, its low-angle light pure gold, coloring the canvas of the world the same in sky and off the undulant skin of the sea before setting away and the last of its colors filtered into calmer reds, oranges, and violets overhead that ceded into stars. […]
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EITHER WAY
“Maybe I’m not who you thought I was. You may still like who I am. It doesn’t bother me if I’m not remembered. I never tried to be. I didn’t care if I was seen then, but I want to be noticed now; not by the world, but by souls that speak to mine. […]
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LEGENDS AND DESTINIES
“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t know it.”—Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist “If we are all to seek our own Personal Legend, do you believe Legends intertwine?” “If the universe is One, and of an originating God-source, […]
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REASONS
“Why do you do it?” his friend asked. “Why do you keep writing and sharing when no one asks you to?” “If I knew, I probably wouldn’t have to write,” Ryan hesitated, thinking before continuing to speak. “I want the Goodness I feel from it. I don’t need it for me. I just […]